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Alex Hanna-ween

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · May 13

It's book press day! The AI Con is available where ever you find fine books! Check out thecon.ai for details.

@emilymbender.bsky.social and I think we wrote a damn fine book, and we hope you'll enjoy it too.

For a taste, check out the preview of Chapter 1, graciously published by LitHub.

On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

As long as there’s been research on AI, there’s been AI hype. In the most commonly told narrative about the research field’s development, mathematician John McCarthy and computer scientist Marvin M…

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 4h

Oops

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 7h

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 12h

hehehe YES

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 12h

does it still count if I've had my ween inverted with GRS

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 13h

getting the WFTDA risk management guidelines and track layout instructions tattooed to my forearm

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 14h

Just flown in from Riyadh, and boy are my excuses tired

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 14h

The Daily show also interviewed "father" of effective altruism William MacAskill & promoted his book.

The billionaires gave him millions to promote his book so a PR person probably got him on the show.

All mainstream media shilling propaganda for the corporations claiming to build machine gods 🙄

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & Geoffrey Hinton discuss ⬇️:

>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons

NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 14h

Something tells me we're not sending our best (to be economists)

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Eze @ezetheigwe.blacksky.app · 16h

About to activate my 3 free months of Health+ so I can get in on the eventual class action lawsuit

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

“Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on nutrition, exercise and more.”

Apple might launch Health+ with AI doctor, food tracking and more

Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on exercise and eating right.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

“Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on nutrition, exercise and more.”

Apple might launch Health+ with AI doctor, food tracking and more

Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on exercise and eating right.

www.cultofmac.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 16h

You think that HELP staff would have a little more sense than to use a method developed by OpenAI to analyze exposure to automation.

But they uncritically quote in the rest of the report: Amodei, the CEO of Ford, Elon Musk, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey, so maybe not.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 16h

"HELP Minority Staff asked ChatGPT to analyze job descriptions catalogued by the federal government for the entire U.S. economy and predict tasks that could be performed by AI and automation."

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NEWS: Sanders Releases Report on Big Tech Oligarchs’ War Against Workers, Warns AI Could Eliminate Nearly 100 Million U.S. Jobs » Senator Bernie Sanders

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today released a sweeping report warning that artificial inte...

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 17h

The CEO of Goldman Sachs: 'he insists he’s “not smart enough” to know whether it’s a bubble or not.'

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Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon on whether AI is a bubble: Maybe, but ‘it’s not different’ from all the other market manias | Fortune

“There will be a lot of capital that was deployed that didn’t deliver returns,” said Solomon. “It’s not different this time.”

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 17h

It's so funny that this was only written a year ago

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · Mar 13

Found an old article from September where Goldman Sachs says AI stocks aren't a bubble.

If something isn't a bubble, you shouldn't have to say it's not a bubble. Incredible work, no notes.

www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 19h

The state leader to tech bro pipeline. Eric Adams is well on his way too.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 19h

from law making to law capitulating

Sunak goes from occupying the highest office in the UK government to advising the wealthiest and most powerful industry

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic

The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 1d

*sighs in philosopher of science*

Looking for confirmatory evidence is an entirely normal part of science. The primary problem here is the eugenics and the fascism, not the lies to children about "the scientific method."

One Bluesky account is quoting another. Inner post has a video of RFK Jr., some person I don't recognize (Tylenol and autism guy, maybe?), Marco Rubio (I think), and Trump. Post text: "RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: 'It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Outer post text: "We're doing studies to prove it (* not how studies work)"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

he does not regret to inform you and neither do I

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

The researchers who made them? And he's just... not right?

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

weirdly enough I feel like an AI slop graph would be worse

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

it's giving

a black background with a dvd video logo in orange

Alt: a black background with a DVD logo floating around

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

...how?

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

I have questions. what's the x-axis? what's the y-axis? is this about linear separability? why are "we" in the middle of space?

0/10 on chart design.

Elinor🎗️ @ COLM 🍁 @elinorpd.bsky.social · 1d

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Slide with “we are here” in bottom left with an arrow pointing top right towards two groups of words: “AI2027” & “everyone dies” and then “AI con” “AI snake oil” “Empire of AI”

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

HIRE CELLA

Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 1d

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨

I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥

I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action

More info: cella.io

Cella M. Sum –

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